Antipodean links
Survey finds that Kiwi women are the most promiscuous in the world, the only country where the women have more sexual partners on average than the men.
The late Kim Beazley Snr was a person of decency and achievement, but his most famous comment shows a certain rhetorical flair: When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now all I see are the dregs of the middle class. And what I want to know is when you middle class perverts are going to stop using the Labor Party as a spiritual spitoon. I had come to think the quote was apocryphal, but apparently not.
Paul Kelly and Robert Manne debate the role of public intellectuals in Oz and the level of policy continuity between Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd.
Reactions of a certain type to then death of an Oz soldier in Afghanistan. It would be easier to believe Left breast-beating about compassion if it didn’t have such a strong tradition of hate.
A little inconsistency on death penalty matters.
The Government is having the normal poll improvement that incumbents get in campaigns. Still think they are starting from way too far behind to make it all the way. Polling on how various issues play between Coalition and Labor: But Australians also continue to rank industrial relations last on the list of issues that will determine their vote. Full report available via link here. Why economic policy is not giving the Coalition the benefit one might expect.
Comment from an economic policy email newsletter I get: Betting markets have outperformed opinion polls in predicting recent Australian federal election outcomes. These markets give only around a one-in-three chance of the Coalition government being returned to office. The weight of money taken by two of the largest bookmakers also favours Labor ... Prediction markets like Intrade imply the probability of a Labor win is around 75% compared to 25% for the Coalition. Current betting here, here and here.
The late Kim Beazley Snr was a person of decency and achievement, but his most famous comment shows a certain rhetorical flair: When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now all I see are the dregs of the middle class. And what I want to know is when you middle class perverts are going to stop using the Labor Party as a spiritual spitoon. I had come to think the quote was apocryphal, but apparently not.
Paul Kelly and Robert Manne debate the role of public intellectuals in Oz and the level of policy continuity between Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd.
Reactions of a certain type to then death of an Oz soldier in Afghanistan. It would be easier to believe Left breast-beating about compassion if it didn’t have such a strong tradition of hate.
A little inconsistency on death penalty matters.
The Government is having the normal poll improvement that incumbents get in campaigns. Still think they are starting from way too far behind to make it all the way. Polling on how various issues play between Coalition and Labor: But Australians also continue to rank industrial relations last on the list of issues that will determine their vote. Full report available via link here. Why economic policy is not giving the Coalition the benefit one might expect.
Comment from an economic policy email newsletter I get: Betting markets have outperformed opinion polls in predicting recent Australian federal election outcomes. These markets give only around a one-in-three chance of the Coalition government being returned to office. The weight of money taken by two of the largest bookmakers also favours Labor ... Prediction markets like Intrade imply the probability of a Labor win is around 75% compared to 25% for the Coalition. Current betting here, here and here.